Procession

This Hyperion release features Handel's Coronation Anthems & Ceremonial Music by Purcell, Blow, Tallis, Gibbons, Farmer and Child. The complete reconstruction with a plethora of trumpet fanfares, drum processions, shouts of acclamation and pealing bells.

“ReWrite of Spring” is a tribute to Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” – one of the iconic modern masterpieces of music with decisive influence on the development of jazz music. “ReWrite of Spring” by internationally renowned saxophonist, composer and conductor Lars Møller, is the first major project from his pen as director of the Aarhus Jazz Orchestra. "ReWrite of Spring" is a two-disc set with one being a studio version and the other live.

Casken’s work is often inspired by literature and legend, landscape and painting and particularly by the Northumberland countryside where he lives. His compositions have won a Gramophone award, the First Britten Award for Composition, the Prince Pierre de Monaco Prize, a British Composer Award for Vocal Music, as well as shortlistings for both RPS and British Composer Awards.

Feted for his Savoy operas with librettist W. S. Gilbert, Sir Arthur Sullivan also regularly produced music for important royal or national occasions. In 1897, to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, he was commissioned to write a ballet for the Alhambra Theatre in London. Conforming closely to the theatre’s established style, this single-act ballet was a spectacular pageant, featuring "speciality" dances, startling dramatic effects and grand "tableaux", notably military ones. Significant research and reconstruction of the score has made this recording possible.